Thanks for the comments Paulo



Bill Askew 

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-----Original Message-----

From: Paulo Herrera [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 

Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 9:50 AM

To: EXT-Askew, R W

Cc: [log in to unmask]; Kenneth MacDonald

Subject: Re: Intel Q965 / Dell Optiplex 745 hard-lockup when X starts.



Hi,



I'm running SL 6 on a Dell Optiplex 980 and I also had a blank screen

after installation.



In my case, the problem was due to using a relatively new NVIDIA

graphics card. The work around was to modify the kernel boot options:

delete "quiet" and add "nomodeset". Then, I downloaded and installed

the latest binary NVIDIA drivers from the NVIDIA site. That solved the

problem.



Alternatively, you can boot in level 3 (add "3" to the list of kernels

options) and install the binary NVIDIA drivers.



Hope that helps,



Paulo





On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Bill Askew <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I tried to do a install of 5.5 and 5.4 on this same system.  The anaconda

>

> graphical install wizard did not come up and the screen went blank.

> I installed using the text interface and the install finished but,

> Like in your case, starting X hangs the system.

> I worked around this issues by installing 5.0 the updating to 5.5

>

> Just thought I would post to the community that there is still an issue

>

> with 5.5 and that I also got a hang when using the graphical installation

>

> interface.

>

> Cheers

>